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=Glory Back=

=Episode 20=

What's wrong?

Xuan, what's going on?

I'm feeling very dizzy.

It seems you've been drugged.

Take the antidote pill.

Why have you come so early today?

His Majesty values this memorial ceremony for late Empress.

As concubines, we should also pay attention.

We can't let anything go wrong.

Noble Concubine De, let's go.

Wan, are you feeling better?

Lord Gu, why are you...

Wan, what's going on here?

Noble Consort Wan had been drugged, and I am detoxifying her.

Look at her messy dress, disheveled hair,

and her flushed face, it doesn't seem like she's been drugged.

What you two were doing just now

looked like a secret affair.

Noble Concubine Meng, mind your words. Physician Gu is my brother.

Noble Consort Wan, your words aren't convincing.

Look how flustered your maid is.

You speak up!

Noble Consort Wan, Physician Gu,

before the late Empress's spirit tablet, you shouldn't...

Yinsheng, what do you mean?

I know nothing.

Noble Concubine De and I just arrived an hour early today

and caught you two having a secret affair under the guise of the memorial ceremony.

Noble Concubine De, what do you think?

Go inform His Majesty.

Your Majesty, don't rush.

There might be some misunderstanding here.

Greetings, Your Majesty.

Feng Qing.

Come with me.

What is going on?

Noble Concubine Meng and I came to the mourning hall,

and saw Noble Consort Wan and Physician Gu alone together.

Noble Consort Wan looked quite unusual.

The situation was urgent, so I had to ask you to judge.

(It seems someone is trying to frame Wan and Xuan.)

Your Majesty,

today, I came to the mourning hall and found Noble Consort Wan was drugged.

While I was treating her, the two consorts arrived.

It's a misunderstanding.

I didn't believe it either,

but Noble Consort Wan's personal maid was speaking incoherently.

There might be more to it.

I-I was really scared just now.

I never thought

Noble Consort Wan would date secretly with Lord Gu in the mourning hall.

Yinsheng, how dare you speak nonsense?

(It's Yinsheng?)

(Yinsheng has always been loyal to me, why would she do that?)

Whether it was a secret affair, His Majesty will judge.

What exactly is going on? Explain it.

Noble Consort Wan often secretly dates Lord Gu.

Noble Consort Wan and Lord Gu are siblings.

Why would you say so?

Slandering is a capital crime.

I don't dare slander her.

B-But Physician Gu is an adopted son of the Gu family,

not blood-related to Noble Consort Wan.

Keep going.

How did you know that Gu Xuan is an adopted son?

Every time Lord Gu comes to Lanzhi Palace, Noble Consort Wan would send me away.

I was curious and accidentally overheard it.

Gu Xuan, do you realize what you're saying?

You were adopted by my family, but we grew up as siblings.

Adopted?

I am indeed an adopted son of the Gus, nurtured by them.

I have always regarded the late Empress and Noble Consort Wan as my real sisters.

When Xuan was adopted, he was still very young.

My father did not disclose his background to protect him.

(Yinsheng's tattling today)

(is pushing Wan and Xuan into a dilemma.)

But Physician Gu served in the army for years.

If he had feelings for Noble Consort Wan, why stay away for so long?

Physician Gu stayed to look after Noble Consort Wan with ulterior motives.

I used to be a maid for the late Empress.

I saw them secretly dating here, desecrating the spirits.

That's why I let this secret slip.

(I can't let Yinsheng keep framing them.)

(I need to remind Wan and Xuan.)

Your Majesty,

I have never seen the Noble Consort Wan and Physician Gu act inappropriately.

Please do not believe the slander.

You're an outsider. How could they allow you to notice anything?

Your Majesty, be wise.

I am being framed. Please uphold justice for me.

Gu Xuan, tell me,

have you ever had any improper thoughts about your sister?

I have no affair with Noble Consort Wan.

Before the late Empress's spirit tablet,

if I am lying, I am willing to suffer the punishment of being cut.

Guards, take this maid away

and interrogate her.

Your Majesty,

after I heard what this maid said, it left me with lingering doubts.

So I sent someone to Imperial Medical Office

to summon the apprentice of Physician Gu.

(Terrible. Noble Concubine Meng has a backup plan.)

You've been with Physician Gu. Did you ever notice anything unusual?

My lady, Physician Gu is kind and gentle.

Except for one time.

I accidentally touched a sachet he wore close to his body.

He flew into a rage.

From then on, he forbade anyone from touching that sachet.

Noble Consort Wan also has a sachet.

Though the color is different, its design matches Physician Gu's.

They were gifts to both of us from Qing.

Both made by Qing, so naturally the design is the same.

The sachet was embroidered by the late Empress.

But Noble Consort Wan put half of a love poem inside her sachet.

She often took it out to read when alone.

When I accidentally touched Lord Gu's sachet,

I also felt something inside.

(With the love poem as evidence, neither of you can clear yourselves now.)

(This is likely a carefully laid trap by Noble Concubine Meng.)

(This final move is the fatal one.)

Noble Consort Wan, Physician Gu.

Impossible! There can't be a note inside the sachet.

Read it.

Morning dew stains the lotus, emerald waters congeal.

(It's this poem?)

(Isn't it the poem I wrote for Xiao Luo?)

The cuckoo cries blood, spring curtains warm.

The deep sea as our vow, sharing this life together.

Your Majesty.

I have never put anything in the sachet. Someone framed me!

My lord, the time for the memorial is almost here.

Noble Consort Wan sent someone to ask you to go half an hour earlier

for a chat.

Okay.

Your Majesty, I am innocent!

My heart belongs only to Your Majesty. How could I have an affair?

You two vow to share this life together. Yet you still claim no affair?

How can the two of you do this to Qing

and to me?

You two!

Guards! Drag them both away!

Defiling the harem is an unforgivable crime!

Gu Wan is ordered to hang herself.

Gu Xuan will be hanged.

No, Your Majesty!

Your Majesty, please be wise!

Your Majesty, be wise.

No!

Your Majesty!

No!

No!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty, be wise!

(I cannot stand by and watch Wan and Xuan die.)

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty, I did not!

Your Majesty, be wise!

(Isn't that the smoke pellet I gave her?)

(What's she doing?)

♪With the warmth you lent me, how could I fear loneliness♪

Ziyuan.

(She's calling me by my courtesy name.)

Stop!

Qing.

You audacious servant! How dare you overstep before His Majesty!

Guards!

Take her away!

How dare you slap me!

With me here, how dare you act so recklessly.

Noble Concubine Meng, today Wan and Xuan are framed.

Is it your doing?

You are slandering me!

Empress? Is it really you, Your Majesty?

In my absence, the harem has fallen into disarray,

utterly in a chaos.

And you dare falsely accuse my brother and sister of incest? Utterly ridiculous!

Qing.

You're really her.

Empress? Her Majesty's spirit has possessed her!

Your Majesty.

(She's insane! How dare she pretend she's possessed by Qing?)

There's no such thing as possession! Your Majesty, beat her to death!

Beat her to death!

Guards! Take her away!

Hurry!

Stand down!

Yinsheng, let me ask you.

On the day of the great fire, you also tried your utmost to save me.

Why frame my closest kins today?

Your Majesty.

Is it really you?

Is it really you, Your Majesty?

That winter when you entered the palace, you nearly froze to death.

It was I who saved you.

I taught you to read, to act, and to recognize characters.

Is this how you repay me?

(Qing also unconsciously tapped like this.)

(Is she pretending Qing has possessed her?)

(Or is she truly Qing?)

You said Wan often read the love poem when alone?

Since she's alone, how could you even see?

With just half a love poem, how can you conclude it's a love poem?

I recognize

this poem.

Of course, you do.

Because I personally taught you to read it word by word.

But I never taught you to be ungrateful.

I was wrong! I am so sorry.

Your Majesty, I am so sorry.

I am so sorry.

You have always been honest, and couldn't conceive such a scheme.

Speak! Who told you to do so?

Your Majesty, how can we allow her to play tricks here?

You once served the Empress. Tell the truth,

and I will spare you.

I...

I love Physician Gu.

But he ignored me.

So my love turned into hatred.

I bribed Physician Gu's apprentice to frame him.

I admit my guilt!

If you hated me, why drag Noble Consort Wan into this?

Was it truly love turned to hatred, or were you colluding with someone,

using me to bring down Noble Consort Wan?

I have always treated you well.

Yet you used such a vicious plot to frame me and Xuan.

You accused them of having affairs, and now you recant.

Liar!

That love poem is irrefutable evidence.

Are you two trying to brush it over with such a play?

Where did that love poem come from?

Q-Qing, could you tell me?

Ziyuan, did you ever truly read that poem?

(Qing Loves Ziyuan)

Qing loves Ziyuan.

This was written for me?

When did you write it? Why didn't I know?

The past is like fallen petals. Your Majesty, why cling to it?

(I've already cleared Wan and Xuan of suspicion.)

(It would be best for me to withdraw now.)

Qing!

♪How can I face it again♪

Heed me out. I hereby make Feng Qing a Noble Lady.

She'd reside at Yongfu Palace.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Congratulations to Your Majesty on gaining a Noble Lady.

♪Wake to see once more♪

♪Through wind and snow, letting white hair fly free♪

♪A lifetime of calamity, traded for a drunken stupor♪

♪A vow leaves a lifetime of shame♪

♪How can I face it again♪

♪Through wind and snow, I journey without regret♪

♪A personal feud starts a sad story♪

♪A dream is but a single thought, shattered at a touch♪

♪Wake to see once more♪